Logic and philosophy : a modern introduction /
Howard Kahane
- Fifth edition
- California : Wadsworth Publishing Company, c1986
- x, 502 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Part one : Introduction -- Part two : Predicate logic -- Part three : Traditional logic -- Part four : Induction, probability, and scientific method -- Part five : More on symbolic logic -- Part six : Modal, epistemic and deontic logic
The purpose of this fifth edition is the same as the first : to provide students with a clear, concise, comprehensible introduction to a complete system for sentential and first order predicate logic ; the fundamentals of the traditional syllogistic logic ; an empiricist account of the logic scientific inference ; and related material on logic and philosophy.